These folks just won’t give up the power and privilege they are acquiring by continuously critiquing capitalism, America, and whiteness. I don’t know WHY people give them that power. It’s like opening your door to a grifter who is going to guilt trip you into committing race and class suicide (their words) and then take over your house with their buddies afterwards, all under the banner of abolition, liberation, equity, and “decolonization”. Double speak for Marxian politics and leftists identity politics. Wake up.
Bang the drum of merit. Challenge anything that undermines it. Who could ask for anything more?
Skin color & geographic origin are about as important to merit as hair color or eye color, which is to say it does not matter. Can you imagine a slogan that said - eye color is our strength? Bizarre stuff.
DEI will be over when it's ruled illegal by the Supreme Court in a discrimination case against a private company with damages assessed against the company. Discrimination by race and sex is illegal under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the 14th Amendment. It should be obvious, but Democrat hack judges will do what they can to delay justice.
Being a liberal means tolerating opposing points of view and being able to argue for your point of view using facts and reality. On both ends of the political spectrum, facts have been replaced by feelings and there is a very limited ability, or complete unwillingness, to acknowledge facts. I hope universities can get back to places where students are challenged in their beliefs and demands are made for them to defend those beliefs using facts and evidence.
If we can't even agree on facts, we are doomed as a country.
DEI at its core is just a political tool for powershifting. It is but yet another example of what Adam Smith termed unproductive labor. That category includes some of the most prestigious professions such a attorneys, physicians, generals, admirals, ministers, actors, opera signers, bankers, pretty much any "knowledge based" or "service based" profession. The key point is that none of these profession would exist or could exist without the surplus material wealth created by productive labor (people and machines).
So, having overplayed its hand and being revealed for the "make work" profession that it is, naturally there is strong push back. Respect is important and recognizing the failings of American civilization is important. Having a group of commissars dictating acceptable speech and behavior is not productive.
Unfortunately the dangers of DEI go well beyond hiring and admisions discrimination. Until the concept is utterly rejected and no students are forced to take indoctrination classes telling them they are victimd or oppressors, the war cannpt be won.
You'll know DEI has subsided when, at least in appearance, normal straight white actors will reappear in commercials without playing clownish, foolish, or silly characters. When every biological male-female pair is not bi-racial. I think it's wonderful our many-flavored ethnic and racial landscape is represented by contemporary casting -- of course! But the absence of (likely) straight Caucasians is duly noted. Whites need not apply.
Casting has become preposterous, I agree. Hard to watch - not just for the dissonance, but for the underlying bullying and intent to indoctrinate. I yearn for the days before artistry excellence was abandoned for "activism".
Why is it that DEI advocates generally seem to be so unwilling to include diverse points of view? Weird.
These folks just won’t give up the power and privilege they are acquiring by continuously critiquing capitalism, America, and whiteness. I don’t know WHY people give them that power. It’s like opening your door to a grifter who is going to guilt trip you into committing race and class suicide (their words) and then take over your house with their buddies afterwards, all under the banner of abolition, liberation, equity, and “decolonization”. Double speak for Marxian politics and leftists identity politics. Wake up.
Thanks for the good news
This is supposed to be the United States. Deliberately dividing people into warring identity groups is a 🙁 vision.
DEI is an Orwellian Ministry of Truth. If you show any resistance to the DEI party line, you become an unperson.
IMO the author is too optimistic by far. I won't believe we've turned the corner on DIE until I see bonfires of Pride flags and the 1619 project..
I think the article is about freedom of all speech
Bang the drum of merit. Challenge anything that undermines it. Who could ask for anything more?
Skin color & geographic origin are about as important to merit as hair color or eye color, which is to say it does not matter. Can you imagine a slogan that said - eye color is our strength? Bizarre stuff.
DEI will be over when it's ruled illegal by the Supreme Court in a discrimination case against a private company with damages assessed against the company. Discrimination by race and sex is illegal under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the 14th Amendment. It should be obvious, but Democrat hack judges will do what they can to delay justice.
Being a liberal means tolerating opposing points of view and being able to argue for your point of view using facts and reality. On both ends of the political spectrum, facts have been replaced by feelings and there is a very limited ability, or complete unwillingness, to acknowledge facts. I hope universities can get back to places where students are challenged in their beliefs and demands are made for them to defend those beliefs using facts and evidence.
If we can't even agree on facts, we are doomed as a country.
DEI at its core is just a political tool for powershifting. It is but yet another example of what Adam Smith termed unproductive labor. That category includes some of the most prestigious professions such a attorneys, physicians, generals, admirals, ministers, actors, opera signers, bankers, pretty much any "knowledge based" or "service based" profession. The key point is that none of these profession would exist or could exist without the surplus material wealth created by productive labor (people and machines).
So, having overplayed its hand and being revealed for the "make work" profession that it is, naturally there is strong push back. Respect is important and recognizing the failings of American civilization is important. Having a group of commissars dictating acceptable speech and behavior is not productive.
Unfortunately the dangers of DEI go well beyond hiring and admisions discrimination. Until the concept is utterly rejected and no students are forced to take indoctrination classes telling them they are victimd or oppressors, the war cannpt be won.
The Babylon Bee is a good source of anti-Woke satire: https://babylonbee.com/
You'll know DEI has subsided when, at least in appearance, normal straight white actors will reappear in commercials without playing clownish, foolish, or silly characters. When every biological male-female pair is not bi-racial. I think it's wonderful our many-flavored ethnic and racial landscape is represented by contemporary casting -- of course! But the absence of (likely) straight Caucasians is duly noted. Whites need not apply.
I know, isn't odd to watch some of these productions?
Casting has become preposterous, I agree. Hard to watch - not just for the dissonance, but for the underlying bullying and intent to indoctrinate. I yearn for the days before artistry excellence was abandoned for "activism".
Good to see DEI get pushed back some - but I found the writer slightly self serving..
That part wasn't needed.
merit
Couldn’t be soon enough!!!
I am an LPGA MEMBER, ( Ladies Professional Golf Association),CLASS A,
teaching AND tour division!
I noticed DEI OFFERED IN OUR TEACHING DIVISION and questioned why we have these classes on DEI???
Answer: teachers need a choice of broadening their spectrum of inclusion. WORD SALAD!
WE HAVE HISTORICALLY BEEN
A MOST INCLUSIVE FEMALE SPORTS ASSOCIATION!!
ITS WRONG AND ITS BAD!
In summary:
Don't worry everyone! Team Blue will come around. They're not so bad... you can still trust the "liberal establishment"!
The Bari Weiss Democratic Party Rehabilitation Project (aka The Free Press) is on the case and we're paying attention!
Just have faith!